Central Hotel / Evergreen Bar, Portland Street, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, Adjoining the Prince of Wales to the south in Portland Street used to be the Evergreen Bar which was part of the Central Hotel. The bar was fairly small, but extended back into a conservatory or garden room. In 1901 what became the Central Hotel started off as Mrs. Grove’s Boarding House at no. 5 Portland Street then. […]
Crown Inn, Tockington / Alveston
Gloucester Journal 7th April 1849: The Manslaughter at Tockington Charles Kibby, aged 27, was arraigned for the manslaughter of William Fowler, on the 16th March, at Alveston. William Iron stated that he was sitting in the kitchen of the deceased’s house, at ten minutes past eight o’clock on the evening of the 16th March, when […]
James Pike Ale & Porter Stores, New Street Place, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, I found this one listed in the 1857 Harper’s Directory. I wasn’t sure where New Street Place was, but it transpires it was what later became Great Western Road running from the Knapp (the triangle in front of the Compasses and the Welsh Harp) up to Alstone Mill (where Waitrose garage car park […]
Crown Inn, Winchcomb(e) Place, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, The row of buildings on the east side of Winchcomb Street/Prestbury Road from the Sudeley Arms (now Airs & Graces) to just past the junction with Clarence Road and Pittville Gates used to be called Winchcomb Place. On an old Ordinance Survey map from the late 19th century it is clearly marked and ends in […]
Paul Pry, Commercial Street, Cheltenham
Gloucestershire Chronicle, 12th August 1848: Eliza Hyett, 28, was indicted for stealing at Cheltenham, on the 14th of July last, from the person of Chas Coomb, a purse, two half-sovereigns, three half-crowns, seven shillings and two sixpences, his property. The offence was committed at a public-house in Cheltenham, known as the “Paul Pry” where the prisoner […]
Ashley Arms, Cudnall Street, Charlton Kings
The following kindly submitted by Martin Edwards.
‘Beer House’ adjoining The Rose & Crown (to the north), Rose & Crown Passage, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, I haven’t managed to find a name or exact dates for the Beer House I think Richard Spreag might have been landlord of before moving to become a “beer retailer” on the junction of Albert Street and St Paul’s Road, where the Clippers Arms was recorded on the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map. But I […]
Laughing Cat, 39 Sherborne Street, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, I think this must be a new one for you, and one of my favourite names of an old pub in Cheltenham – the Laughing Cat, 39 Sherborne Street. This address is probably most well known in Cheltenham for the promotional zinc figure of a Victorian master chimney sweep in frock coat and top […]
St Margarets Stores, North Place, Cheltenham
Thank you to Alan Jones for the following research and information. St. Margarets Stores was located at the junction of North Place and Warwick Place, where the car park is now – across from Chapel Spa.It existed from 1870 until it lost its licence in 1925. In a 1925 Licensing Session a newspaper report says that […]
Pheasant Inn, Coleford
Monmouthshire Beacon, Saturday 14th April 1860 – Nuisance: Thomas Jenkins was charged with permitting in his premises, at the back of the Pheasant Inn, Coleford, a privy so full as to be a nuisance and injurious to health. The defendant said he had been subpoenaed to Gloucester, and had not had time to have it […]